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Nikki Glaser had people dying with laughter during her Golden Globes monologue and managed to have people on social media all saying the same thing after a surprising Jeffrey Epstein joke.
Nikki Glaser was determined to roast all the celebs in attendance at this year’s Golden Globes and was pretty successful in it to be honest.
The star even managed to have the 51-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio laughing and smiling along as she made the predictable dig at the star for often having much younger girlfriends.
But there was a joke that did take some people on social media by surprise as part of her monologue.
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The comedian managed to include a joke tied to disgraced pedophile and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
She joked: “I cannot believe the amount of star power we have in this room tonight. It’s insane. There’s so many A-listers.
“And by A-listers, I do mean people who are on a list that has been heavily redacted.
“And the Golden Globe for Best Editing goes to the Justice Department.”
Yeah... that certainly stunned some people who were watching at home. This was in clear reference to the so-called Epstein files that have been released over the last few weeks, with many of the pages redacted a surprising amount.
Many remarked that they couldn’t believe how quickly this joke came out from Glaser, noting that they didn’t expect an Epstein joke to be thrown out so early into the show.
One user on X wrote: “Not even 3 minutes in and there’s an epstein jokes it’s gonna be a longggg night.”
Another wrote: “4 minutes in and theres already an epstein joke Ok im going to bed.”
A third wrote: “A Jeffery Epstein joke 4 minutes into the #GoldenGlobes. Not bad.”
With another simply adding: "LOL Nikki Glaser leads with an Epstein joke at the #GoldenGlobes."
As well as this, some people found it hilarious that as Glaser made her joke, it incidentally cut to Bill Maher’s reaction.
One person commented: “Nikki Glaser just made a joke about people being on the Epstein list and they immediately cut to Bill Maher LOL.”
Another wrote: “not the camera cutting to BILL MAHER when she made a joke about people in the room on the epstein list hahahaha.”
Just for clarification, Bill Maher has not been accused of any wrongdoing or being tied to Jeffrey Epstein in any way.
An awards show isn’t complete without a bit of drama and part of that comes from the jokes told by the hosts - here are some of the most controversial gags from the Golden Globes over the years…
Ricky Gervais - who has hosted the Golden Globes five times - brutally told the star-studded audience in 2020: “You could binge-watch the entire first season of After Life instead of watching this show.
“That’s a show about a man who wants to kill himself cause his wife dies of cancer and it’s still more fun than this.
“Spoiler alert, season two is on the way so, in the end, he obviously didn’t kill himself. Just like Jeffrey Epstein. Shut up. I know he’s your friend but I don’t care.”
While hosting the 2013 ceremony, Amy Poehler took aim at the filmmaker’s marriage to his third wife, Kathryn Bigelow, who was nominated for Zero Dark Thirty.
Referencing the movie’s controversial depiction of torture, Poehler said: “When it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron.”
Cameron recently addressed the ‘ignorant dig’ in an interview with The New York Times.
Unsurprisingly, Gervais makes the list once again, this time with his quip about James Corden and Judi Dench for their roles in Cats.
In 2020, he said: “The world got to see James Corden as a fat p*ssy. He was also in the movie Cats.
“No one saw that movie. And the reviews, shocking. I saw one that said, ‘This is the worst thing to happen to cats since dogs’.
“But Dame Judi Dench defended the film, saying it was the film she was born to play because she loves nothing better than plonking herself down on the carpet, lifting her leg and licking her own m*nge. [Coughs] Furball. She’s old-school.”
2025 host Nikki Glaser made a controversial joke about disgraced music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, before he was sentenced to 50 months in prison on prostitution-related crimes.
While addressing Zendaya, Glaser said: “Challengers, girl? Oh my God! That movie was more sexually charged than Diddy’s credit card, I mean, seriously. I’m sorry, I’m upset too. The afterparty is not going to be as good this year, but we have to move on.
“I know a Stanley Tucci freak-off doesn’t have the same ring to it. No baby oil this year, just lots of olive oil.”
During his 2024 opening monologue, comedian Jo Koy was accused of making a ‘sexist’ joke about one of the biggest films of the year.
“Oppenheimer is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and Barbie is on a plastic doll with big boobies,” he said in a true tumbleweed moment.
Barbie director Greta Gerwig later reacted to the divisive remark, saying: “Well, he's not wrong.”
It’s only fitting to end the list with another outrageous jibe from Gervais.
While speaking about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s famously long runtime, he poked fun at Leonardo DiCaprio’s reputation for dating younger women.
“Leonardo DiCaprio attended the premiere and by the end, his date was too old for him,” the comedian said in 2020 (he clearly took no prisoners that year), before adding: "Even Prince Andrew is like, ‘Come on Leo, mate. You’re nearly 50'."
